March 1999 - Vol. 58, No. 3
Sound and Pictures from the Edison Companies
Cover Story
The Library's Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division
contains many of the artifacts of the creative and entrepreneurial talents
of Thomas Edison, the "Wizard of Menlo Park."
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DIGITAL LIBRARY SUPPORT
The AT&T Foundation has donated $3.5 million to the National Digital Library Program to support things like the digitization of the Alexander Graham Bell and Samuel F.B. Morse collections. -
CARRY ON THE STRUGGLE
Scholar and activist Yvonne Scruggs-Leftwich delivered the keynote address for the Library's African American History Month. -
'BUILDING THE BELOVED COMMUNITY'
Rep. John Lewis spoke at the Library on his time in the civil rights movement of the 1950s and '60s. -
SOUTH ASIAN BIBLIOGRAPHER
The Library and Sage Publications begin their second year of collaboration. -
AFRICAN AMERICAN NEWSPAPER AND PERIODICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY PUBLISHED -
THE LIVES OF GREAT AMERICANS
The Library hosted a reception for the publication of American National Biography, a 24-volume reference work from Oxford University Press. -
A VISITATION OF FELLOWS
The seventh class of the Library of Congress-Soros Foundation Visiting Fellows arrived in Washington this month. -
DC INSTITUTE
Catholic University of America will host the 25th annual Institute on Federal Library Resources in July. -
MONEY MATTERS
Dr. Billington presented the Library's fiscal year 2000 budget to the House Subcommittee on Legislative Appropriations on Feb. 10. -
CULTURE CLASH
Author Uwe Timm discussed Germany's trials since reunification at the Library on Feb. 5.
